Goals:
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book for children and others to look at during Sacrament
Meeting to help with thinking about Christ
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cover as many aspects of Christ’s life as possible,
particularly areas that children are interested in
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keep costs as low as possible (about $6 per book is the best
we could do; we did 100 books
for an Enrichment night in our ward)
Start with a small photo album (the $1 kind).
They are sometimes called brag books.
We found ours at Michael’s.
They hold 24 photos each, and the paper in the covers can be
removed.
The pictures are from:
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pass-along cards
ordered
from the Church distribution center.
These pictures are smaller than the page and are mounted on
cardstock cut to the full size of the page.
Pass-along cards come in packages of 100 for $3.50, and the extras
can be used to pass-along to friends.
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program covers, like those used for
Sacrament Meeting programs. A
segment of the picture that is 4”x6” is cut from the printed program
cover. A template was made
with a 5”x8” piece of white paper with a 4”x6” hole cut out of the
center. Move the template around over the program cover until you
decide on the best part to use. Be
careful with the people in the background near the edges of the template
so you aren’t cutting off heads, arms, etc.
Program covers come in packages of 100 and cost $6-8 per package.
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pictures from the Church gospel art kit were
used with permission. The
pictures were downloaded from the Church web site.
In order to bring the focus more on Jesus, the pictures were
cropped (being careful about not cutting off heads, etc.).
When the result wasn’t a 4”x6” image, borders of a contrast
color were added at the top and bottom to fill in the space. We could have mounted the picture on cardstock, but that
costs more and putting the color in the digital file with the picture
costs nothing more the print. It
is also more cost effective and more durable to take the files to a photo
shop to be printed. We were
able to get $.17 prints at Costco or Sam’s Club. They
needed to see a copy of the permission I got from the Church copyright
office.
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purchased
as 3”x4” prints from Deseret Book.
There is a discount if lots of the same picture are ordered at the
same time.
The following list goes cover to cover by page.
Order names and/or numbers are included in parenthesis.
Of course any pictures can be substituted or added.
- (front
cover) Joy to the World
pass-along card (36878000).
The white edges were trimmed off the picture, then it was
matted with ivory and mounted on navy card stock.
Measure the cover paper that you removed to get the dimensions
for the card stock.
- (inside
front cover) Computer
printed words from the children’s songbook –Tell Me the Stories of
Jesus—on ivory cardstock. Mount
the words on the back of the blue cardstock from page 1.
- “For
God so Loved the World” print by Simon Dewey 3”x4”.
This is the only print that we purchased as a
print. Trim the white
edges off the picture and mat the top and bottom edges with mustard
cardstock. Mount on a
4”x6” piece of forest green cardstock so that the picture lines up
with the right and left edges of the cardstock.
This allows all the pictures in the book to be in portrait
format so the book doesn’t have to be twisted to be view the
pictures.
- Flight
into Egypt (#204) 4”x6” photo printed from the gospel art
kit.
- Boy
Jesus in the temple (#205) 4”x6”
photo printed from the gospel art kit.
- Jesus
and His Mother (#242) 4”x6”
photo printed from the gospel art kit.
- Jesus
with Joseph (Childhood of Jesus Christ #206) 4”x6” photo printed from the gospel art
kit. The top and
bottom were filled with mustard color, as if it had been mounted on
mustard cardstock.
- John
Baptizes Jesus (#208) from
a program cover.
- Sermon
on the Mount (#212) 4”x6”
photo printed from the gospel art kit. This was cropped and a blue border was added at the top
and bottom of the page.
- Christ
with little boy from a program cover (“In His
Light”).
- Christ
and Children (Del Parsons) is a card from the Church distribution
center that has the Articles of Faith on the back.
Mat the picture with tan paper and mount it on a 4”x6”
piece of forest green cardstock.
Currently not on the Church web site, but Deseret book has
them. They come in a
package of 50 from both sources.
- Christ
and children from a program cover (“Suffer Little
Children”).
- Jesus
at the Door (#237) 4”x6”
photo printed from the gospel art kit.
- Christ
healing a blind man (#213) 4”x6”
photo printed from the gospel art kit.
- Christ
Stilling the Storm (#214) 4”x6”
photo printed from the gospel art kit.
- Christ
and sheep from a program
cover (“Lost No More”).
- Christ
with staff from a program
cover (“Light of the World”).
- Christ
washing disciples’ feet from
a program cover (“Panoramic Christ Washing Feet”).
- Christ
in Gethsemane from a program
cover (“Christ in Gethsemane”).
- Crucifixion
of Jesus from a program
cover of the same name. The
pink border was cut off and the print was mounted on 4”x6” navy
blue cardstock.
- Christ
leaving the tomb pass-along card (“Finding Faith in
Christ” 36589000). The
card is matted with mustard, then mounted on 4”x6” navy cardstock.
- Christ
appears to Mary near tomb pass-along card (“Lamb of
God” 36094000). The
card is matted with navy and mounted on 4”x6” maroon cardstock.
- Resurrected
Christ with apostles (“Jesus Shows His Wounds” #234)
4”x6” photo printed from the gospel art kit.
- Christ
appears to the Nephites pass-along
card (“Book of Mormon” #36171000). Trim the white edge from the picture, mat it with black,
and mount on 4”x6” rust cardstock.
- Christ
with Nephites from a program
cover of the same name.
- Christ
blesses Nephite children from
a program cover (haven’t yet identified the source).
- (inside
back cover) Some people wanted to put the Articles of Faith here.
Others wanted to print their testimony on ivory cardstock and
mount it on the back of the navy cardstock of the back cover.
Others used the “Mary and Martha with Jesus” program
cover earlier in the book, just before page 18, above, so that
page 26 was really the inside back cover.
- (back
cover) Second Coming
of Christ is from a program cover of the same name.
Mount on navy cardstock cut to match the original back cover of
the photo album.
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